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Volume 24, Number 1, 1Q 2013 The Island Vegetarian Vegetarian Society of Hawaii Quarterly Newsletter SUPPORTING HUMAN HEALTH, ANIMAL RIGHTS, AND ECOLOGY VOL. 24, ISSUE 1, JAN – MAR 2013 Inside This Issue New Legislative Session Heralds a New Initiative to Improve Hawaii’s School Lunches President's Message 2 by Lorraine Sakaguchi, VSH President Eating to Extend our Lifespan 3 Veganic Gardening Guide 4-5 Oahu, Maui & Kauai Events 6-7 awaii’s children are offered breakfast and lunch every day in our pub- lic schools. Each day is a new opportunity for them to enjoy and VSH Community Activities 8-9 learn about healthy foods that will set them on a path to good health Vegetarianism in Asia 9 H for the rest of their lives. This past year, the USDA issued improved guidelines Nutrition News & Book Review 10 for school meals to include more fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Recipes 11-12 Restaurant Reviews 13 However, a look at January local school cafeteria menus suggests that opportu- Animals 14-15 nities are still being missed. Breakfast, for example, may be turkey ham, Eng- Upcoming Events 16-18 lish muffin and hash browns, or a strawberry cream filled pretzel with peaches. Membership Benefits 19 Lunches, while including a fruit and a vegetable each day, still feature meat as the daily main dish, often processed meats, including a corn dog, chicken nug- gets or a hot dog on a bun. Such main dishes can contribute to high cholesterol Free Public Lectures levels, obesity, and diabetes in children. State Senator Mike Gabbard, a Terry Shintani, M.D. vegetarian, is planning to introduce “The 7 Step Health Makeover: a bill in this year’s state legislative Lose Weight and Reduce Your session to give students healthy Need for Medication” vegetarian meal choices at public Tuesday, January 8, 2013 schools. William Harris, M.D., of Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse VSH, and John Cadman, longtime Maui school food service manager, Gene Baur have been working to help craft “Farm Sanctuary: the new bill. Our November Oahu Changing Hearts and Minds speaker, John McDougall, M.D., About Animals and Food” has also promised his personal Tuesday, February 12, 2013 support in helping this bill pass. Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse Sen. Mike Gabbard and A previous bill, SB 2136, intro- John McDougall, M.D. Ori Ann Li duced in 2008, with similar aims did not pass. However, if enough people let our state legislators know they Ori Ann Li’s Vegan Paradise A Cooking Demonstration support this new bill, it should have a good chance of succeeding. Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse Contact Senator Gabbard at (808) 586-6830 or [email protected] for ways to help support the initiative. Together we can make Hawaii a health- Please see page 16 for more details, in- ier place for everyone! cluding Maui meeting times. The Island Vegetarian The Island Vegetarian is published quarterly by and for the members of the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii. si’s ss P.O. Box 23208 Honolulu, HI 96823-3208 808-944-VEGI (8344) Aloha, and Happy New Year! [email protected] VSH.org Our VSH volunteers and I look forward to another exciting year of providing you with information you can use to support your efforts in following a healthy lifestyle that is also kind to animals and to the planet. Visit our website for online lecture videos, I’m grateful to our volunteers who have opened new avenues during the past a restaurant guide, year for our members, including Terry Bear, who began VSH’s “Imagine a Ve- TV and meeting schedules, gan World” support group, which meets weekly, Matt Jisa, who has been creat- newsletter archives, ing a lively VSH community on Facebook, Lulu Cey, who has kept VSH tweet- and more. ing on Twitter, and has helped us to get VSH membership discounts on Oahu, as well, and Tom Eisendrath, who helped VSH Kauai members get their first Board of Directors membership discount this past year. Please see a list of many of our active vol- President: Lorraine Sakaguchi unteers on the left side of this page. Vice President: Jim Brown I would also like to thank two of our most dedicated volunteers who have re- Secretary: William Harris, M.D. cently stepped down from their posts. Each has put in countless hours to help Treasurer: James H Thompson Directors: Karl Seff, Ph.D. accomplish VSH’s mission, and has left shoes that will be hard to fill. Patrick Moore Mahalo to Scott Snarr, Editor of The Island Vegetarian, 2008 to 2012 Steve Blake, Sc.D. Ori Ann Li Scott served as the editor of this newsletter for the past five years, and as a member of the VSH board for 3 of those Advisory Board years. During this time, he worked with great dedication and skill to create an interesting, readable, and informative Mark Fergusson publication for our readership, even after a move to Tai- Newsletter Committee chung in Taiwan. We at the board of the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii thank Scott for his significant contributions to our William Harris, M.D. educational mission, and wish Scott well in his future volun- Alida Rutchick, M.Ed. teer and professional endeavors! James H. Thompson Mahalo to Denise Snyder, VSH Community Liaison, 2006 to 2012 Mahalo to our volunteers: Denise served as an active VSH volunteer for seven years, Oahu including as community liaison for the past three years. She Terry Bear did much to inform the public on VSH’s events and activities, Lulu Cey and also helped VSH with her accounting expertise. She Patrick Connair worked tirelessly to educate people on vegan issues, both Thomas Eisendrath (also, Kauai) online and in person, giving out many thousands of pam- Phyllis Fong phlets. She did everything from setup work at lectures, to Dr. Fred Foster tabling at events and even helped our vegan support group get Dr. Ruth Heidrich started this past year. She also was a vital part of VSH’s re- Jake cent collaboration with a Chaminade University field service learning team. Matt Jisa We at the VSH board thank Denise, and wish Denise and her husband well in Sirilak Moore Denise Snyder their new home in College Station, Texas. We know that community will be all Georgie Yap the richer for Denise’s being there! Kauai I’d like to welcome Jim Thompson, VSH board member, as interim editor of Vigil Alkana The Island Vegetarian. Please send any comments or newsletter contributions Karin Medigovich Dameron to [email protected] Gordon LaBedz, MD Maui Aloha! Catherine Blake Page 2 The Island Vegetarian ♦ January‐March 2013 the Harvard Nurse’s Health Study, which is Eating To Extend Our Lifespan currently the most definitive long-term study ever on older women’s health. It is the sub- by Michael Greger, M.D. ject of my 2-min. video “What Women Should Eat to Live Longer”. Since the leading cause of death was heart hy can’t we live forever? disease, it is no surprise that dietary cholesterol consump- W Some animals do, and I tion was a significant risk factor for death. The second don’t mean some 200 year old leading cause was smoking-related cancer deaths. Com- whale–I’m talking immortal. There paring the two, consuming the amount of cholesterol are actually species of animals that found in just a single egg a day appears to cut a woman’s don’t age and could technically go life short as much as smoking 5 cigarettes a day for 15 on living forever–and why not? In years. a sense, humans are immortal in The most protective behavior they found was fiber con- that a few of our cells live on as sperm or egg cells lucky sumption. Eating just a cup of oatmeal’s worth of fiber a enough to find each other. Each of our kids grow out of day appears to extend a woman’s life as much as 4 hours one of our cells, and that alone (the fact that a single cell of jogging a week–though there’s no rea- can grow into an entire person!) should son we can’t do both! make, in comparison, the notion of keep- ing our bodies going indefinitely seem The one specific food most tied to longev- trivial. ity was nuts. Women appear to get 4 hours of weekly jogging benefit eating Human longevity is certainly a hot re- just two handfuls of nuts a week as well. search topic. Much of the research has Taking a step back, though, it’s worth focused on the role of DHEA noting that the intake of cholesterol, only (dehydroepiandrosterone), the most abun- found in animal foods, was associated dant steroid hormone in the human body. with living a shorter life and the intake of DHEA may help counteract the effects of fiber, only found in plant foods, was asso- stress, preserve female fertility, and it ap- ciated with living a longer life. pears to be a strong predictor of longevity. Caloric restriction is thought to extend the lifespan of A similar comparison has been made between the risk of many animals by upregulating DHEA, which normally smoking and eating processed meat (see “Prevention Is declines as we age. DHEA is sold as a “fountain of youth” Better Than Cured Meat”). Though healthy eating can over-the-counter dietary supplement, but concerns have help mediate the devastating effects of smoking been raised about safety, side effects, and quality control. (see “Smoking Versus Kale Juice”, “Preventing COPD There is, however, a natural way to boost DHEA levels.
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